Armadillo Christmas Bazaar 900 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704
Live Music, great gifts, art and more…
Renee, Rita and Nancy are this year’s first group to person the decorated ADAPT Santa Clone table. With candy, toys, a petition and ways to donate, you can find it all.
This Sunday December 3rd is the International Day of People with Disabilities, IDPD, so celebrate! Go out and be seen. Be proud and let others know you embrace your disability and being part of the disability community worldwide. This day doesn’t get much attention here in the US, but in many other countries it is a big deal. The IDPD and the World Health Organization have lots more info if you are interested. Click here IDPD and here WHO for more on what they are doing. From Sweden to Kenya, from Australia to South Korea, from Ecuador to Japan, from Nigeria to Taiwan, from Trinidad and Tobago to Sierra Leon, from Fiji to the UK people with disabilities are striving for better circumstances for our people and doing amazing things. The struggle and the goals are different in different places, but we people with disabilities know we have the right to equality and quality of life. Folks from many of these countries have visited and corresponded with ADAPT over the years.
IDPD was
Come join (or rejoin) PACT the Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas
Tuesday 11/14 At ADAPT 1100 S IH 35 at 6:00pm
Come and break bread with fellow workers in the community. Food and drinks provided in a relaxed atmosphere to rest, meet and talk about issues in your field.
What issues? work on a bill of rights, higher wages, benefits, recruitment and retention and any OTHER ideas you may want to bring up.
Contacts: Cathy Cranston flacacata@com & Nancy Crowther ncrowther21@gmail.com 512-442-0252
NOW is your chance to push back! The federal Dept of Health and Human Services has published proposed 504 regulations for medical treatment, use of value assessments, web and related access, medical equipment, health care programs and activities, and more. It talks about organ transplants, parents with disabilities, futile care, pregnancy and all around medical treatment. This is for folks who get funding through HHS, but that’s TONS of places.
If you couldn’t get on an exam table, never get physical exams, can’t get a mammogram or a scan because the equipment is not accessible, it’s time for you to speak up.
Comments need to be submitted by November 13, 2023.
The rules are long because they cover a lot. But don’t be intimidated because you only need to look at/and or comment on the parts you want. If they left something out you can comment on that too.
This has the potential to change all the crap you have had to put up with for decades! So don’t let this chance slip by.
For the HHS FACT SHEET on the proposed rules click here. It explains what they are about and a little background. It also has a link to where you can comment online as well as how to comment other ways.
After a boiling hot summer we were delighted the weather turned cooler and beautiful for our Fun Run! Phil and Reuben Coleman provided a right on sound track for our runners. Cathy and Ron Cranston, along with their super helpful grandkids had the logistics and all the fixin’s totally together with drinks and snacks. The Yellow Jacket track and stadium had been beautifully updated and was the usual fantastic venue for the event. Lots of cool visitors stopped by too. Don’t worry if you haven’t had a chance to sponsor a runner yet, just jump over to www.funrun.net and sponsor the runner of your choice.
Join ADAPT of Texas to celebrate disability activism and raise funds to support community integration for ALL and other important disability rights issues.
Saturday October 7, 2023 / 12 to 2 pm
Yellow Jacket Stadium (Anderson Stadium)
3101 Hargrave Street (across Rosewood St from the Millennium Center)
www.adaptfunrum.net for more info, to register and/or support a runner or group
For more information: Ron Cranston ronniebonners@aol.com
or Bob Kafka bobkafka10467@gmail.com
El Paso Fun Run for Disability Rights 7975 Williamette Ave. 79907 Same day & time
for more information: Josue Rodriguez josue.adapt@yahoo.com
National ADAPT members from around the country (including from Austin and El Paso) travelled to DC for a series of actions addressing housing, community attendant services, ending the institutional bias, livable attendant wages, DME – Durable Medical Equipment and more.
Cathy Cranston demonstrating house mask used for the HUD action. Behind her is the iconic HUD building and plaza where DUH City was held in 2004. For more fabulous pictures in a slideshow by Desert ADAPT’s German Guzman and the story of the national action go to the National ADAPT website https://nationaladapt.org/
ADAPT Organizer Robin Hoffpauir and Sophia Donnelly maneuver an akward ramp entrance to Waller Creek trail this summer as several of us did an access survey of the area.
The trail along Waller Creek started smooth but soon changed to this bumpy surface that made for a rough and (for those of us with neurogenic pain) painful ride.
Bob Kafka and Ron and Cathy Cranston look across the water at a heron on the other bank, just below Waterloo park. There are nice ramps and beautiful natural surroundings in Waterloo Park. They just need to improve the signage so you know where the access is and where it goes.
The Great Blue Heron flew to another perch along the path, The Waterloo Park people are interested in access improvements, especially as the park improvements are extended down the trail in phases all the way to Lady Bird Lake.
This year, in celebration of ADAPT’ ‘s 40th Anniversary, Syracuse Cultural Workers created a beautiful poster with images from the years of struggle for disability rights. It is truly a collectors item. Then they agreed to donate to ADAPT for every order using code 2324ADAP They have put together a collection of posters, buttons, stickers, a T-shirt and mug with disability rights related themes so go check it all out, and all the other progressive items they have in their extensive collection. Go to SyracuseCulturalWorkers.com and don’t forget to use code 2324ADAP..
This July 26 was once again cause to celebrate the passage of the disability rights law the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, ADA.
